The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT 0$ THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Mexiean Government, as appears from an article in the Moniteur, has taken measures for establishing a species of Concordat with the Pope, by which, amidst the most reverend expressions towards his Holiness, as recognized Head of the Romish Church, the Americans make. no secret of their intention to define and limit in, temporal matters, that authority to which, in points of a spiritual 'nature, they profess their ostensible obedience. While the Republic submits to the Ecclesiastical Crum eils her opinions, so far as doctrine is concerned, She-takes especial care to reserve a perfect freedom from control on questions of discipline, patronage, church revenues; orga nization of dioceses, election of bishops, with respect to which latter subject it is promised merely, t' qu'il en seta donne: avis asa saintett4" it is further provided, that all ecclesiastical affairs shall be determined within the Repub lic, conformably to the canons and the laws. That no strangers shall, by virtue of any commission, exercise ,the least act of ecclesiastical juriesdiction. These, with the offer of an annual free gift of 100,000 pesos to the Holy See, and a declaration that, where the monks and nuns were formerly amenable to the authorities out of the realM, they shall now have recourse to their proper Me tropolitan, form the chief provisions recommended by two ebmmissions,,,,which have presented a report to' the Senate. The above scheme of connexion with the Church of Rouse, if adopted, will, not leave much room for en croachments by the Papacy on the national clergy of the Republic. The arguments by which Mr. Shuttleworth ' at the Man chester Meeting, met the advocates of the Corn Laws, cannot easily be answered— • " The beat argument (be observed) I have heard in defence of the existing Corn Laws is, that the amount of taxation to which the grower in this country is subject is so much greater than that to which the growers abroad are liable, that he 'cannot bring his produce to market against foreign competition. I am not disposed to extenuate the evile of taxation—l know they are great; but great as they undoubtedly are, they are not fairly chargeable with the monstrous evil of justifying these laws. They press as heavily on wrought manufactures am on agricultural produce, and, there fore, (Ilford no facility for introducing foreign corn ; as, in order to import it, eninething must have been exported to pay for it; the importer of foreign corn will receive those articles in payment, for which he will give no more ivlieu sold subject to heavy taxa tion, than if no taxes whatever existed. Suppose, for example, that the taxation of this country raised corn 20 per cent. in price, there would he an inducement to that extent to bring foreign corn hither ; but if every other thing else were also raised W per cent. the foreign growers would he in precisely the same situation as if ino such advantage had taken place in his Limn. 'lbis reasoning shows that as taxation equally raises the price of corn and all other things, it does not expose the home grower to any unfair risk of foreign competition. The argument, if good for any thing, must be limits l exclusively to those taxes which fall directly on , the land." Mr. Shuttleworth adverts to the recrimination of the land holders against the other classes of society; but here, it appears to us, he is less successful. " Another argument used in defence of these laws (he says) is founded on the protection granted to WSW of our mannfacturers in defence of their monopoly of the haute market. It is alleged, that in consequence of the corn growers being compelled to pay more than they otherwise would if a free importation of foreign menu factures were permitted, they ought to have the monopoly of the home market. There may, for aught I know, still be some indi viduals disposed to set a value on legislative patronage; but sure I am, that I give expression to the almost unanimous opinion of the tradinginterests, when I say that it is to be deplored that the patronage was even , bestowed upon us." Now i we confess, we have never seen any greaterlibe ratty on the part of the Manufacturers than on the part of the Agriculturists, when it has been proposed to invade their monopoly. Mr. Shuttleworth must not flatter him self that the manufacturers throughout the country are yet generally converts to his liberal views. How many of the Mercantile and Manufacturing interests in tin! House of Commons have been abusing Ministers for listening to political economists, and adopting their views respecting free trade ? Touch any one class, silk manufacturers, linen manufacturer's , or ship owners, and a loud outcry is instantly raised. • They would all be very glad, no doubt, to have cheap bread; but each would, at the same time, wish to exclude fair competition in the !wide in which he himself deals. The land owners possess the power to enforce their monopoly; the other classes are without power; but this is the only difference between them.— Morning Chronicle. Notwithstanding the pains which Lord Eldon, and, with his assistance, that Parliament 'has taken to reform the Bankrupt Laws, they are still, in practice, the source of great and notorious abuse ; so much so, indeed, that there are fesi men of business who haVe the 'misfortune to be creditors of an insolvent estate, who would not rather submit to almost any loss, in the shape of composition, than that a commission of bankrupt should issue.. A case which is stated to have come before the Lord Chancellor only a few dayti ago, affords a tolerable specimen of the way in which country commissions are sometimes sued out and Worked. In that case the clerk to the solicitor is stated to have been one of the Commissioners—a circum stance at which his Lordship •is represented to have eit pressed no small share of astonishment. But though there may have been some degree of novelty in such a circumstattee, we do not see that, hi effect, it differs very materially from what we understand to be a very common praetice, viz. that the partner of the stiliciter shall be one of the Commissioners Indeed a bankruptcy, in a mode rate-sized country town, generally furnishes work for ail the ettornies—either,es solicitors itt suing out the commis sion, as Commissioners, or as bolleitol'S to the assignees, In the choice of these latter, the struggle, generally, is not. as to who are most likely to administer the estate in the best manner for the erediters, but which attorney's friends shall get him the job ; and, in some instances, where the election is likely to be a closely run one, the compro mise takes' place, and the estate, is blessed, or rather sad died, with the assistance and the costs of two sets of solicitors. , Though these kind of unseemly struggles, and ss ktill more unseemly results do not take. place in the case of town commissions, front the mere respectable character of the Commissioners, yet , the way in which the business is too often transacted at Guildhall leads to full as had results, and stands quite as much in need of a thorough reform. Considering the intricate and momentous nature of the questions which come before there tribunals, it scein, somewhat absurd, that they should be composed, as they, sometimes are, of young bridess banisters, whose loi6wledge and experience must be often less than that of• the country clerk in the case we have alluded 41. .Wancten wonder how sated men as Mr. Mon taglis Mr% Pollock and. other eminent barristere, who are em pl o yed as Coensel in these , ass e s , can keep their coun tenance when they are addressin g , mis arbiters of th e i r opi nious, Paso" for whose indgmeot they ism feel little or no res p ec t. Resides, to seethes, Gentlemen appointing sit tings on ten or a dozen Commissions on the same day, and many of them at the same hour, necessarily bespeaks a confusion and an impossibility of attention, whirl, must dis sat men o f b us i n ess, Red, in a great de gree , d e f eat t h e g real for which they assemble. Knowing the ex . tent. P o l f lu t P h7s e evilwe were in hopes r t_ l 7: l - ri ti i i i t s s e i i: o t t .l e t r a s reeturimended by ; the Chance r y pies(: ent ititituu d have been the total abolition of ti • missioners, and the establishment o f a Bankrupt bou 'a t in i; rt, full of tedioust their stead. I"t y ead of a balky Ite rl fewer still under- stand, de tails,wined fete have reac, 11,11 1 would rhavP been stand, a few plain practical suggestmns w.i.ch is likely to of much more service than any thing t arise from this ponderous performance. themselves tout, perhaps, 'The truth is, that laWyers will never reform - intending it, the result of all l i mit; iiiiiviiirigieisssteoetii: ttiombiee, in to h th a e !l° Z y lti ,:r i a rn ult i i r t Y il e it t b a ll :l ( ; S ri . tust be a Y the work of irt b ei! of one bu siness and of common sense; the latter qu ality n et:l e g - won; it, rofessmnal w eia t ev ert if they possess p a pply to t he errors of their own systene—Morning Heraid. in- classes eroiduet of the work g The circumstances'aud in different parts Of the country haveexhibited of late some otriking:contrabti. In Lancaah,ire and the manufacturing districts of the West of Scotland, great number of those, who are usually occupied in the various departments of the Cotton Trade, have found it impossible to procure em ployment, and have borne great privatiOns with exemplary patience; 'they have shown-their willingness to labour In alit way, and on almost any terihs, ht order to earn some small pittance for their families ; and the benevolence of their• more fortunate countrymen has not been slow to es- sist" sufferers so deserving of compassion. Yet, with such a scene as this going on before their eyes, the colliers in the :neighbourhood of Birmingham, though liberal wages were ready for their acceptance, combined against their masters, and even broke out into open disturbances, in or der to compel their employers to pay then at it higher rate. " The attizans of Dublin have scarcely ceased parading the streets, in formal procession, with a view to accomplish a similar object; and some descriptions Of thent still act in concert, and refuse to work except on the terms which they theinselves dictate. Are these men blind to what.'has happened in Lancashire? - May not the distress which has assailed the cotton trade overtake them at some future time ? And what will it then avail them to have babbled after Joseph' Hunie, concerning the .pre- . tended right of every man to .refuse ,to work unless he. gets s remuneration which he is pleased to think suffici ent:? Will that right provide them with the means of sub sistence, when, in the vicissitudes of trade, employment becomes scanty? Far be it from us to say to the suffering population of Manchester and Glasgow, " It is not long since you chose to continue idle for months,because your mas ters would not 'submit to your dictation ; they sustained great loss at the time in, consequence of your combination ; and you wasted, in supporting that combination, funds which might have afforded you now a most valuable re source; you combined not to work then, because you had a right not to work, unless you were satisfied with the wages; if such rights are to be acted upon, in what situa tioe will strict right leave you now ?" We would not action such notions towards them; because humanity is . a safer rule of conduct than those tissues of verbal jargon, alike devoid of feeling and of deep thought, which some soi4lisant political philosophers palm upon the world. for profound reasonings. But we would suggest, both to the working classes and to those who assume this branch of legislation as their peculiar department, that, when they look at the supposed right to combine, they see only half the question—that in all branches of trade there must be Vicissitudes—and that the supposed moral right to com bine, in seasons of good trade, is not easily reconcileable, in ; sound reasoning, with the undoubted moral right of those who, when trade is depressed, cannot procure em ployment, to he saved from starvation either by the poors' rates, or the benevolence of th e i r fellow-subjects. The reasonings of Joseph Hume, on this subject, proceed upon the ti u si t ion —that neither men nor the - laws are to have any bowels of compassion for an unemployed poor. Fortunately for us all, that is a supposition which will never . hold true in England; and theories built upon it, however liberal in aspect, ought never to be acted upon here.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—Mr. Charlton, of the Vicar-General's-office, DoCtors'-Commons, appeared before Mr. Alderman Amur on Saturday, upon aaummons, charged with assaulting Peter Barney, a strange-looking prim little personage, about 50 years of age, apparently' a foreigner. - The complainant stated, that he was A private teacher of writing; and other accomplishnienta, and in consequence of a message fron► a Mr. Fowler, he waited upon the defendant at his chambers, and the first. thing he accosted him with was," How dare you kiss Mit; Fussier, br ? " He answered him by simply admitting that l►e had done so. " And are you not ashamed of yourself ?" said Mr. 'Charlton. Witness replied, where there was no sin, there need he no shame upon which the defendant got into a passion, and talked of docking hint i►► a horse-pond. " Now," said Mr. Peter Barney, uppralink to the Alderman, " if I had the lady's option,. surely I. win .not hound to oak Mr. Charlton whether 1 n►igltt kiss her or not. I had a free invitati►m front .Mr. Fowler to call upon the family .whenever I chose, and I shall Mr. Alderman AN stAy.—Conte,. sir,. do nut tell me a long rigmarole story. What induced you to call upon Mr. Charlton at all ? Peter explained that he did so by the desire of Mr. Fonder, jun. Mr. Alderman ANSLKL—And did he give you that black eye? Barney declared : that he did, and had assaulted him without sufficient provocation. Mr. Charlton, in reply, stated that be bad recommended the complainant to the family of a Mr. Fowler, at Newington, as a writing-master. : A few days ago he was informed that the com plainant had been detected by Mrs. Fowler kissing . his pupil, a girl not tinirteen years of age; and that perceiving front what she saw of his manner that his . intention was not to stop with the insult he had offered, she immediately turned hies out .of th&bonee. Upon questioning the girl afterwards, she said the complainant had . been endeavouring to persuade her she was old enough to have a husband, and btu! asked her if she hall any objection to leave her friends, and go to live in Russia. lie had, subsequently lurked about the premises to take advantage of Mrs. • Fowler's absence, and gain admittance from the servants to the girl, who was so terrified at him, that when she heard he was at the door, she ran down stairs and locked herself into a cellar. In this state of things, Mrs. Fowler had requested him to prevent, if possible, Barney from continuing to annoy the fa mily ; and with this view, Mr. Fowler, jun. sent the complain ant to him upon. this occasion. When.he taxed Peter with taking .the liberty to kiss Miss Fowler, with the greatest e f f rontery in the world he replied, " It is very. true ; and I'll do it again as often es I please, .Sir." Mr. Charlton told him if he did, he would wring his rune from his face ; and Peter becoming very abusive, he ordered hint to leave the room. ibis Peter refined to do, and being threatened with expulsion, he put himself in a boxing attitude, whereupon Mr. Charlton struck the blows • tvhich were now the subject of complaint, and Peter having beard perhaps that " immoderate valour swells into a fault," retreated without returning upon Mr. Charlton the favours he hail bestowed. " You had betternot have come here, Barney," said the Al derman,-" if it' is true that you hive conducted yourself in this disgraceful manner to a child." Peter seemed a stranger toshame, and appeared to think there wits nothing disreputable to him in Mr. Chariton's statement ; at. all events, he did not contradict it ; lint he impressed upon the Magistrate that Mr. Charlton struck the first blow, Mr. Alderman Asstev said no purr wonld . blame the irritation Mr. Charlton felt at the manner in which Barney had discredited recommendation,his and repaid his kindness to hint; but althou g h . . . . he could, have wished he had shown a little more forbearance, he could not think of holding Mr. Charlton to hail under the dream- Itances. Complaint dismissed. BOW-STREET.—Robert Hogg was charged by George 'Forred with an assault, under the following circumstances t....... It appeared that the complainant having too much reason to suspect the fidelity of his wife, had recourse to an expedient to which jealous husbands are 'in the habit of resorting, and feigning a • sudden cull to the country, where, he said, his pro.; Settee was required for a few- days, he left his lodgings in Plough-court, Carey-street, on the morning of Friday, resolv ing to return at night, with a view to ascertain how far his sus picions were well-founded. ' At half-past 1 i on the night in question he returned home accordingly, and opening the street door with ft latch key, he proceeded up-stairs on tip-toe to his wife. bed-chamber, the 'door of which he fotmd locked. lie knocked, but received no answer ; but feeling convinced, from certain suppressed whispers, that his wife and her paramour were closeted ,together, he knocked with renewed violence, and de manded to be admitted. Ile then called , for a light, whent tlt room. suddenly, the door The rtevaa co m plainantt tti loeked, , and the defendant darted (rein en 4 progress, received a violent blow tin ti ' l l e a body, to , i which a:T est coupledhis with the force with which he rushed by hint in his endeavour to avoid detection, brought hint (complainant) to the ground, I,: n i :::: e fel ti l , :;n of stait. 1 1 ,e l ,te defendant, however, was arrested In hit flight by a watchman • and the complainant charged him , whiwstatiosi,hlte,..l ;1131,his which 110 W complaied. T lia poor man,d , fendimcni ►. •,fis i- • 0 11 4 N , seemed to feel (Jeeply ; while the e''' leqty , manner the utmost indifference, and even The comptainant and defendant are both bakers by trade, and until the present occurrent% they were on terms of the strictest friendship. Hogg, in his defame, said, that he met the complaittaut's wife, by theism in Holborn, and that ahe invited hint home to litiPP!' lie disehtioted any ,eritititial intention, and denied that any thing inipilTer had Named between them. When naked, however, how ever, t o reconcile that statement with his endeavour to avoid de tection, he smiled and said nothing,. 311 .. f iNsii 1 3 13,, after eointrienting in severe terms on the coo duet of the defendant, who, under the mask of friendship, had, to all appearance, acted a very different part, said that he shotild be held to bail for the assault, and taking into consideration the cir. oumatances connected with the case, he should further he required to give notice to the - complainant of the persons Whom he meant to bring for Ward in his behalf. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—On Satitrday, M Norton, a Northaniptonshire man, who formerly kept a butcher's shop in Fitzroy-market, with his wife and four children, the eldest eight or nine years of age, and the youngest at the breast, asked Mr. ItAWLINSON's advite. Ile said, that on Thera- day, being in the utmost distress, he applied to the attrteer of St. Pancras (his own pariah), and they were taken into the workhouse, but that on Friday, by order of the Board, 10s. were given to him, and they, were sent away. Ile walked the streets until the children could proceed in) farther, endeavouring to pro cure a lodging, which every body refused to give hltri l because of his family ; and they must have remained out all night, if it had not been for a lady, who took them to her house. A little kind-looking old lady, very neatly dressed, whose name is Charlotte Sharp, and *he lives at No. 20, Field-street, Battle-bridge, came forward, and said, that hearing a noise at the top of the street, between twelve and one in the morning, she got did 14 bed, dressed herself, and went to ass what was the matter. On her road, she found the poor man and woman sitting . together, tipoti the ground; the oldest child was sitting at a distance by himself, two of the little girls were asleep upon a piece of board, and the other was in her mother's _arms. " I could not, your Worship," said she, " return to my bed, and leave the poor crea tures in such distress ; so I took them home, and I hope your Wor ship will be so good as to do something for them." - • Mr. RAWLINSON asked her if she knew anything of the fa mily ?—She said she never saw them before. Mr. Rawbtsisort---You have really done a very kind act, and I am sure the recollection of it will afford you satisfaction at a future day. I will immediately send an officer with them to the workhouse, and, if the parish will not provide for them, bring them back to me. . Major Spooner was charged by Morris Hart, of No. 7, Holy well-street, in the Strand, with an assault. Hart said, that on Thursday,, when he took some damask table-cloths and napkins to the Major's house, in Bentinek street, which the Major had bought of his father, a dispute arose about the quality,, and the Major refused to pay for them., He threw the napkins, &c. about the floor, locked the Par lour door, knocked him down, called him an impostor, and.kept beating hint, although be cried murder and mercy, until at last he kicked him out of the house, and lie was very much-in jured by a kick, upon a dangerous part, which he received at the street-door. John Lomath, a stranger passing by, witneatd the last kick. The Major acknowledged that, he did kick the complainant out of the house, ai a reward.(he said) for hiS insolence. He was ordered to give hail, himself in 40/. and two sureties in 20/, each, to answer the charge at the sessions. Paddington Tom, alias Thomas Varley, was charged with assaulting and beating Charles Elliott. " What are you ?" said Mr. Rawrat.isom to Elliott, when he got up to prefer his charge. A shooter, Sir," replied Elliott. " A shooter !" said Mr. RawuNsots ; " what do you mean by a shooter ? " Sir, the same thing as a cud to other coaches," replied El liott; but' We Paddington cads are shooters." The etymology of the term put Mr.,l4wt,txsoN to the puzzle. Elliott could throw no light upon the subject, farther than that it was a new name for cad, to which, by way of pre-eminence, the guards of Paddington coaches are alone entitled. In a bit of a lark, Joe Mellish, another shooter, stole Charles Elliott's dinner out of the dicky, and gave it to Paddington Tom, a and he said, says he, Tom, here's Charley's dinner." Thinking it no joke to lose his dinner, Charley takes up his fist, and knocks Paddington Tom down, and thus originated the assault. Mr. Rawutssox ordered Tom to find bail. The parties soon returned, to say they had settled the matter, by Tom giving Bs. to Charley. Mr. ilawintsoti said lie would consent to no such arrange ment. The Paddington shooters are a perpetual nuisance to the public, and unless Tom' gave an additional 5.. to some charity, the case must go to the sessions. This did not meet with Pad dington Tom's approbation, and he was locket( up—a'new way to procure a Sunday's dinner. iIATTCIN,GARDEN.—ShortIy after the Magistrate hail taken his seat, a tall gaunt-looking personage appeared, and placing him self exactly in front of My. Root:UV, made an obeisance, which, from his lengtb of body, brought his head in close contact with the table. On being *abed hi. limmies., he stated that he ,was a member of the honourable Society of Bather., anti with a sort a lunge thrust a printed bill into the hands of the Magistrate, which stated that the members of that society had determined, as far as in their power lay; to prevent the abominable crime of Sabbath breaking; for which purpose they had come to a resolution of dosing their shops on every Sunday morning,, at ten o'clock pre cisely ; and for the furtherance of which object the said society were to meet every Tuesdarfor the next three months. Mr. ROG n'ts.—But what application do yoU now wish to make to me ? Applicant.---Why, your Worship, I live in Somers'-Town, and there isn't a more active supporter of the 'Society's plan than my, self. Now, Sir, I have got some neighbours who are a little bit mischieVausish, and they all come just upon ten o'clock, on pur pose to hinder the from shutting up shop, and I thought that if your Worship would send me two or three ,of polish:officers to clear the shop, it might prevent me having any further trouble. The So ciety, your Worship, sanctions this here application. The Magistrate said he could not recognise the Society at all. The bill waa signed S. 14 P. Secretari ; what did that mean ? AppliCant.—Oh, they are the initials of a eery respectable man's name, who is secretary, your 'worship—Samuel Price Bickers? Mr. Rougas.—Atid who is Mr. Samuel Price Bickers ? . Applicant.:...( With another profound obeisance. )—myself, your worihip. Mr. Roc res—lt is impossible for me to recognise any, society who deal only in initials ; and it is eqUally impossible to attend to your application.. Persons wilt come to he shaved when they please, I suppose, and it is not il► .my power to prevent„ them. You must settle it with your customers. - The applicant then withdrew, evidently mortified at the ill suc. cess of his embassy. THAMES POLICE.—On Saturday Samuel Libby was put to the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Tate, on board the ship Kent, a South-seaman, in September last, on the high seas, near the Sandwich Islands. The prisoner, who is a very good-looking young man, and has been in irons since that period, was brought up on Tuesday evening, in custody of Gray, the officer, from Blackwell, where the Kent is now lying. Mr% IlaOun t ir, then went par ti ally into the case, and the pri- seller was remanded till Saturday, when all the evidence was fully gone into. Richard Christopher stated, that he is a seaman on board the Kent South-sea whaler. On the l9th of September last, he lima on board th e vessel. Sh e was on th e coas t o f N ew Z ea l an d. He was in th e f orecastle, as was the deceased, Thomas Tate ; be was sitting on a c h est , cutt i ng to b acco ; it was a week day, be tween the hours of twelve and two o'clock ; the prisoner came from the deck into the forecastle, and sat down opposite to the de ceased; he was eating his dinner; some words passed between them. The witness saw the prisoner strike the deemed with his right hand ; he had a kitife, with which he was eating his dinner, in his left ; saw the deceased endeavour to get up, but be fell down immediatel i y ; afterw ar d s saw a qua ntity o f bl oo d gus h f rom his right sid e ; t deceased elmott immediately after died, he did not speak ; when the prisoner struck, the deceased licheard the latter cry out, "Oh ! for GOO, sake, go hir a doctor." Mr. e e ee i ng , you , aga i nst my advice, insistedon entering on your de- Ba° ""iii 'Warmed the prisoner, and said, "On Tuesday fencer I apprised you of the consequence of so doing, without the advice of it professional man, and wattled you that every thing you should say would be committed to writing, and might operate against you elsewhere, but still you would persist, and what you have said I have taken down, eo I pray you to be attentive whil e I ,read it." Mr. Reorient e then reed the following statement of the prison er until a seama n on board the Kent , in September last ; I Was in a haat Over the forecastle, arrangiug some harpoons and bhat irons; it was exactly twelve o'clock, the captain sung out fordinnee ; 1. went dnw,n-to get dinner, the other men were at mess. I went to get something to draw my grill, with;. I got a ladle, which was made of a cocoa-nut shell to get some vinega r t o put into the pea-soiqe , liernerd, a seaman, asked me, " Have you 11001111 g else to bail your soup l eith ?"i said no. took Wand bailed the soup- Christopher said, " That's a noble chap." I said, lam tio more a ch a p than you are—l have a name in the vessel as well as you have, mil m e by .my name he said, 1 sup pone you want to bully. T a t e sa id, It was a decent trick—he neve r . saw such done before, * I ' A id it was often practised ;, he said no ;so I hove the cocoa-nut *hell at bin, varegar end all.--- Cannot recollect the answer he Made; ,if it was to save my life.l cannot. recollect, it. I told hint, if he would not give ever aggra vatinre, I should strike him ; he aaid , !''Don't he afraid, I dill :not 1141 ' 97. 4 , 1 °P10r , ". . said the) , were sending missiona &flea to naitteanaie the eaveges of New Zealand, and it would be much better to keep, them at home, and send them. td na turalizi that part of the country I cam e from. This, aggravated me. struck hint; be had a kitite,iii his hand ; I said, " Tate, do you hittiotto stab me '?" I had a intil i e in my left hand ; he shoved hiilnift against my chest; and under the apprehension of losing my life, 1 made use of the knife I had, and I had no other way of escaping except 14 falling over the chest, which was iMpossible. Richard Christopher was again called, and he made a further deposition. He said that he did not see Tate, the deceased, strike the prisoner; he was not minding much, hitt *as eating his din ner. It thight be possible that the deceased struck, or attempted to strike, the prisoner with a knife. The deceased did not rise up after being stabbed. There was tin scale. He certainly sand prisoner get op from wheni he was sitting, and strike the deceas ed first. Mr. Boonton , pegged to know from the witness how long it was from the time he first saw the prisoner strike the deceased until•he saw the blood gush out ftc*s his aide. The witness said, about five minutes, Mr. BILODERIP observed, that five minutes was a long time, and he reqfiested the witness to state how he was occupied from the period he saw the tititoner strike the deceased the first Wow, until he saw the blood flowing froth the deceased's wound ? • The witness replied that' lie was eating his dinner, and had just got some broth, and had time between the first blow and the fatal stab to take four spoons-full of it, and break part of a biscuit into it; lie was eating his dinner in the ordinary way ; the broth was not over hot; he had not finished his dinner. He was quite dis gusted ; he could eat no tabre when he saw the blood of the de ceased rush into the pea-soup. Two knives were here produced, the one with which deceased was cutting the tobacco, and the other with which he was stabbed. He identified them both. Frederick Robinson, the surgeon of the ship, proved that the wound received by Tate caused his death. He was stabbed in the right side; between the second and third ribs, penetrating the diaphragm through the right lobe of the liver, and wounding the vena cava. The prisoner was remanded. Ile seems to be about 25 years of age, and throughout the whole investigation he conducted him self with the greatest firmness. • WELCH ASSIZES. BRECON. There were three prisoners, one of whom was found guilty of murder. Rees Lewis was charged with the murder of John Price, on the Darren in the parish of Llanafank,vr, .on the -234 of April. The indictment contained five counts, and the prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Sockett stated the facts of the ease,'and called the following witneises Peter Price, son of the deceased, knew the prisoner, who kept a small farm, and was besides a shepherd ; wit ness's father was also a shepherd; a quarrel took place between his father and the prisoner, a month or two be fore the murder; it was on the Vanfed, where they both kept sheep; he heard high words between them; the prisoner had a stick in his hand,, which he raised to the deceased's head, saying; " If I live I will make you re pent," and then went away. On Sunday, the 23d April last, witness went with his father to the Darren-hill, about four in the morning, where they saw the prisoner and his son, the former having a stick hi his hand; the deceased returned home to breakfast, leaving witness on the Dar ren; had not seen prisoner on that hill for half a year I before ; between seven and eight witness also went to breakfait, arid afterwards to the meeting-house, and returned to dinner, but his father did not come; after dinner, between one and two, witness returned to the Darren, and saw the prisoner walking from the hill, as,if on his road home ; he had a stick in his hand ; • when wit , - ness arrived on the Darren, he found his father lying with his face downwards, and without his hat; lie called to him, but reeeived.n6 answer; • he turned him with his face up wards, and found he had been killed; his head was swollen, and the face much scratched and bloody; thought he had had a blow under the left ear, as blood. was running from it; his neckerchief was tied so tightly that he could no put his lingers in between it and the neck ; there were se veral marks on the neck, as if from the pressure of fingers ; witness immediately informed his sister and the neigh bours, and went for the constable; the body was brought home ; witness, with the constable and others, went to the priaoner's house, which they searched, hut he could not be found. On his cross-examination, he said he never saw the prisoner on the Darren before, and wondered what he wanted there ; the deceased and prisoner were not on good terms. In answer to a question from the Bench, he said there was blood on the ground, and his father's stick was found under the body. Amy Price, daughter of the deceased, went with cattle to the Darren about eleven o'clock, in company with a boy named Edward Wilding; they met David Arthur, arid after,proceeding a little way up the hill,- they saw the pri soner crossing from Bryntlydd to the Darren; he sat down awhile, and then went away at a quiCk pace towards the spot where the murder was committed ; when she lost sight of him he was within 60 or 70 yards of the place where her father's body was found ; he , had a stick. • David Lewis, prisoner's son, was next put into the wit ness's box : [upon seeing him, the prisoner became visibly agitated, and shook his head at him, as did also the pri soner's wife, but she was, cautioned that if she did so again . she must leave the Court,' the witness was thirteen years of age, and though he bad never been at school, ap peared to understand the nature of an bath : 'he was ac cordingly sworn, and stated that his father was at home on the morning of the day on which JOhn Price's body was found ; went with his father towards the hill, but did not go further than the Vanfed; his father desired him to stay there while he looked after some strayed sheep ; witness lay down and slept two hours or more, till his fat per's return; his father awoke him and asked him if he saw any blood upon, him ?" he looked and .observed a little upon his face near the eye.—[Here a feeling of horror appeared to pervade the Court, which was very much crowded.]--Witness asked what had hap pelted to hits, but he made no answer except desiring him to wipe the blood off, Which he refused to - do ; his father rubbed it off with some grass, and they returned home to dinner, but his father eat' none before witness went out; his father desired him to go back to the bill and look for the sheep, but he was afraid; he, however, took the mare and . went - to the hill; .he met Jones the constable, who asked him if he had seen John Price on the hill? he replied he had not since he saw him after breakfast; witness then returned hoMe, but his father was not in the house. He underwent a cross-examination, but no material variation appeared in his testimony: David Morris, a convict in the gaol, detailed a con versation that took place between himself and the pri soner, in which the latter observed, My prosecu tors can't say I killed the man, for nobody saw me, and if I shall have my feet free I'll half murder one or two again, if I am obliged to come back to gaol afterwards ; I'm not afraid of the • law but in one point—because I ran away; a person who was listening at the inquest told me to give my self up, as it Would not be worse upon Sessions, no one me at the f he meant T t i o le co c t a l s fe e ex: r h ti e le re p. p fence in the hands of his Couns el, who called several wit itness r l e i e s d e ! then asked the prisoner ki t i l l ie th p e ri rn so u n i e h r " left W , having seen me " I will if I sun left to be cution having been gone through , nesses to prove that the prisoner was him not a quarrelsome between twelve man, and one of them swore he s a w and one on the day of the murder . his . (prisoner's) own sides being field. The evidence on both concluded , the Chief Justice simmiertup with t he greatest c l ear n ess and Precision ; and the Jury, after de liberating about a quarter of an hour, return ed a verdict of Guilty. . The u d,,ppy c ulprit was then sentenced to death, and ordered for execution on Monday' the 14th instant. He appeared perfectly fi rm and collected d ur i ng t h e whole of te trial, except when his son appeared against him. After his condemnation, he made a full acknowledgment of his gu il ty and, declared that alp the witnesses spoke truth except Morris, with whom he held no conversation of the nature of that detailed in his evidence.- - on M on d a y last, the prisoner underwent the sentence of the law on anew drop in f ron t of the county gaol at Breeon. 7 - 7 -Areloshury chronicle. The Great Session for w hich k ronet , too place la st .week, proved, as Hanel, a nunden one—neither prism -it nor cause to try. This was also the case f r of Flint. or t he . county iII4IVEIiSITY INTELLIGENCE. ECCLESIASTIAL PREFERMENTS. OXFORD, AuG. l9.—The Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Co ventry has been pleased to present the Rev. W. E. Coldwelt, M.A. Rector of St. Mary's, Stafford, to the Vicarage of High Offley, in the same county, vacant by the death,- of the late Dean of Chester. - - Last Saturday the Rev. Mr. Beresford was inducted by autho rity of the lord Bishop of Cloyne into the valuable Living of In niscarra, vacant by the resignation of his father, the Hen. and Rev. George De La Peer Beresford. The. Rev. Thos. Mouncey, of Stamford, to the Vicarage Owthcone, in the East Riding of Yorkshire; patron, the Lora Chancellor. The Rev. C. Arnold, B.A. to the Rectory of Wakerley,, Northamptonshire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. H. Atlay ; patron, the Nlarquis of Exeter. On Monday fast the Hon. and Rev. Henry Rodney was installed a Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, vacant by the tie oease of the Rev. J. E. Tronghton. The Rev. Mr. Snow, who some years since seceded from the Established' Church, and gave 11p,two Livings, in consequence of some ill-founded objections which he entertained against Infant Baptism, hal entirely abjured his errors, and been 'since licensed to a Curacy in the diocese of the Bishop of Bristol. In one of hie recent letters to the Bishop, he says, " I see most clearly that • in the Scriptures there is not one single instance of persons ep pointing themselves Teachers, nor of a congregation selecting its own Teacher according to the manner of the Disienters; but that the Apostles either laid hands on the Elders themselves, or estab lished a person to do so under their authority, as in the instance of Titus, who was expressly left at Crete for that purpose, that . , he might ordain the Elders in every city acivrding to the Aposioli appointment." MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY, AuG. 23. Belahaw and Burrows, Manchester, at White's Hotel, Man. cheater Bentley and Fogg, Eccles, Lancashire—White's Hotel, Man chester 0. Carroll, Bristol—office of Messrs. Bevan and Co. Bristol 1 G. Dixon, Runcorn, Cheshire—Nag's Bead, Warrington 1 T. Dunn, Bristol—Bummer ,Tavern, Bristol, R. Eaxtgate, York,-:--Publis office, Barnsley • 1 1 H. Flint, Paddington, BoUlton in Fesxnhead.--,-Nag's Head, Warrington T. W.. and J. L. Gill, Coventry—Kiug's Head, Coventry..• C. and S. Harrop, Dobcrots, Saddleworth--White Bear, Manchester • ..... .• J. Hayden, Sou thampton.---office of Mr. Afar tell, Portsmouth Holiday & Co. Preston—Office of Troughton and Co. Fresiwn Johnston 'and Co. Whitehall—Black Lion, Whitehaven ...... F. Kennedy, Kingaton.upon.:Hull—.Dog and Duck, King sten-u pon- H ull ....... ..... .ll J. Lane, Rochdale—Wellington Hotel, Rochdale ........... T. Lovell, Olney, Bucks—Bull Inn, Olney .................. W. Mercer, Manchester—White's Hotel, Manchester ...... J. Ruby, Helston, Cornwall--Commercial Rooms, Bristol..' Winstanley and Carver, Limerpool—George, Liverpool ...... 10 J. Wynne, Stafford—Star, Stafford 3 12 10 11 1- to o Loss OF THE SHIP VALETTA.—Brtue 1 corn f the ship Valetta, 800 tons burden, a private Indium% mended by John William Phillips, an island and reef o fe oral rock, • in latitude 21 deg. south,, longitude 143 deg. east , hitherto un known, were discovered on the 10 th of July, 1825 . It a pp eal. from a Bengal paper, and from private letters , tha t the Vidalia Sailed from Port Jackson to New South Wales, on the 13th of Joe, in ballast; had a prosperous voyage till the 10th of Joll; but on the evening of that day, the, wind suddenly shifted, and bleb'very strong , from ,the north. Breakers and a reef being &s -cried, every , exertion to work the ship off were made, but a trel menilous swell baffled the most skillful efforts, and she struck so forcibly oil the reef, as to occasion the loss of her rudder. WO t much hazard, an anchor was got put, and many articles- thrown overboard, which so effectually floated the vessel, that they me cessfully brought her into a safe cove, with no less than eight-,ket water in her hold. By hauling the ship up, on examination , it was found, that any attempt to repair such material injury Would be deemed nugatory. There being no alternative, she +was reluv tautly abandoned ; and a ,ship's boat (conjectured the launch) was equipped, add after a sojottrnment of ninety-two days on the island they proceeded on their destination to Calcutta, where they safely arrived. No mention has been made of inhabitants. There can exist no doubt of the accuracy. of survey of this discovery ; Mr. Phillips being an intelligent gentleman, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and nephew to the late Rear-Adittiral Burney, who tccortv' pulled Captain Cook on his two last voyages. DREADFUL SUICIDE.-011 Friday afternoon, - most determined act of self-destruction was committed by a yo"'ut man about 25 years of age, named Johnson, an ivory-turner , re siding in Mitchel-street, Brick-lane, Old-street. The fath er t' t the dectaied had for many years carried on an extensive business in the same line, near Old-street ; but from a Succession of domes tic calamities, which partially affected his intellect, he had heel ) * compelled to tranifer it into the hands of a son-in- lacy , wit !' whom, since that time, the deceased had been employed as a w ; neyman. These circumstances, added to the badness of the t ray generally, and a coldness of behaviour on the part of his broth el' in-law, of which the deceased o ft en complained, brought e t pression of s pi r it s w hi c h had b e en visible for limelime , months p. during which period lie made two ineffectual attempts to 'k' , once by hanging himself to the bed-tester, from wh ich was extricated by the, presence of mind of his wife, who cut hit° down, and again by taking i quantity of oxalic acid, Which 0 4° discovered sufficiently 'soon' to he rendered ineffectual. on F ria ' t 'he went with his wife and three children to Spend the after uoit with his wife ' s father and Mother in Type -street, Chiswell-street' and appeared in better spirits than usual. He left thiroom / he : they were sitting a short time before the tea was prepari4 l ,,"" " . t is returning, it was supposed he hid gone out. Some time a ll h ; mother-in-law having occasion' to go up stairs, fancied she hi. cost-tail in the hack room of the fi rst floor, the door of wain ,;„, stood' ajar, and on pushing it open, saw him apparently kn ee , , r, on the floor close to the door. In a state of alarm she'cal le° ' a s ; a.ssistance, 'when it watt ascertained that h e w a s attached to a hciad in the wall by a new rope, which he had twisted tightly o u L " 1 his neck, and produced strangulation. 'Th e hook was within t ee reach, but so determined must he have been' on commltt ifi gh l a tt ras h act, that without even the assistance of a noose, h° lio thrown himself off his legs, and continued in nearly a Dis t position. 'Medical assistance was resorted to, but withou, ; 11 , n'laft of t i t ' l l i l e miu na e n a ie fou o rt f h iing, S °.w , e i rb :;- sligliteit effect; He has left a wife and three ch il dren , * m ! expectedcata A stro p p o h o e r is wo street, near Halifax, was safely delivered, on Weu n day morning, of three boys, all living. • • u 5 The public were- likely to h ave sus t a ined a se r loss a fewllays since, i n th e d eat h o f M r . NlAttlil°, ' e .: the cornedian; This celebrated pourtrayer of (1,11: I~Y -, ter, though perfectly idst noisy audience, has not the same confidence ion an inclosed bath, in the Pi the noisy sea ; and has consequently been bit, when bathing here, in addition to the s ecuritY i of t a i t sit h lg on a le i w if h e. e p a res s o u r r v io r i , ind e t : ittt put this on, as usual, he plunged into the water , , 01 , from some caus e or ot h er , it slipped front its r s i it e i o l round the che s t l ower d own th e b o d y And his llr and the upp er part of his body were thus kept OW no' water, his legs only appearing above. Such t hree tion immediately excittul the attention of two or i t he gentlemen who were at that tune dressing , alarm having been o nly given, the comedian v‘,'As s ) ( t h e rescued from his unpleasant situation by (40 () • attendants, withont having ce beyond the necessary fr ight,at • iie%n c en—. such an u ed occurrence. sustained pinch no :unveil:: T- - ___ MARRIED. the On the 17th inst., at Kin th pe, near Northampton, ht ...i Rev. R. W. 13 "ter , Cary &ries " El Esq., eldest son , 1 d 1 ,„,% .' lholserruLtgeehite.eerEstothvfre:Ca::°)llfaii:nriiißalinyigessa'bellini.lNalheeofidutuatieldawcortiluthhnit)N:oot:t,htlialinlip:tney:D':heliiite7k . On the 16th inst., at Ilantpdeit, the,seat of the,Prl of " I a y : i n the 4 1.1', mghatnshire, the Rev. Augustus Ilobart, of Waltou, trey Egremont. -_------ Rev. J. W. M. Sumner Rector of Sutton, Suffolk, Printed and Published by 14— lOUNG, at the , Sys " ft -- No. 112, Strand, 1 ~I